Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Budget Committee member, joined Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) in introducing No Hearing, No Vote, a bill to require that reconciliation bills such as Democrats’ proposed multi-trillion dollar spending package receive a full hearing before votes can occur.
“Democrats are trying to ram their enormous tax-and-spending package through Congress without proper scrutiny or transparency,” said Senator Cramer. “Our bill would ensure we follow regular order and prevent Democrats from advancing their reckless agenda without first going through the committee process.”
No Hearing, No Vote was first introduced in 2017 by now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with 39 Democrats joining as cosponsors.
Under the No Hearing, No Vote legislation, it will not be in order in the Senate to consider any reconciliation bill on Senate floor unless the reconciliation bill was ordered reported to the Senate by the committee of the Senate receiving reconciliation instructions, or reported by the Senate Budget Committee after receiving recommendations ordered to be reported to the Committee on the Budget by one or more committees of the Senate receiving reconciliation instructions. That requirement could be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Senate.
Senators Cramer and Braun are joined on the bill by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), John Hoeven (R-ND), James Lankford (R-OK), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Mike Rounds (R-SD).